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The formation of Romano-Celtic religion(s)
Continuity and Innovation in Religion in the Roman West, Vol 1, ed R. Haeussler & A. C. King, 2007
Under the Roman Empire, polytheist religions interact and integrate in a drastically changing environment resulting from military occupation and urbanisation and from the development of a range of social groups that were part of empire-wide hierarchical networks. In light of the extent of sociocultural change, particularly in the Julio-Claudian period, could pre-Roman Celtic and other Iron Age religions survive? How did Celtic religion in the western provinces adapt to suit Roman provincial societies? Can we recognise 'relics' of Celtic religion in the Roman period? What do we know of the evolution, origin and raison d'etre of local religions in the Roman West? Considering such questions helps to improve our methodological framework for interpreting the evidence.
Celtic religions in the Roman period: Personal, Local, and Global
Marjeta Šašel Kos, Ralph Haussler, Ralph Haeussler, Blanca María Prósper, Cristina Girardi, Daphne Nash Briggs, Anthony C King, Roger S O Tomlin, Vojislav Filipovic, Fernando Fernández Palacios, Alfred Schäfer, Audrey Ferlut, Werner Petermandl, Alessandra Esposito
ed. by R. Haeussler and A. C. King. Aberystwyth 2017.
What is Celtic religion? And does it survive into the Roman period? This multi-authored volume explores the 'Celtic' religions in pre-Roman and Roman times. It book brings together new work, from a wide range of disciplinary vantages, on pre-Christian religions in the Celtic-speaking provinces of the Roman Empire. The twenty-six chapters are the work of international experts in the fields of ancient history, archaeology, linguistics, epigraphy and Celtic studies. It is fully illustrated with b&w and colour maps, site plans, photographs and drawings of ancient inscriptions and images of Romano-Celtic gods. The collection is based on the thirteenth workshop of the F.E.R.C.AN. project (Fontes epigraphici religionum Celticarum antiquarum), which was held from the 17th to the 19th October 2014 in Lampeter, Wales.
How to identify Celtic religion(s) in Roman Britain and Gaul
in: Divinidades indigenas em analise ed. by J. d'Encarnacao, 2008
What do we really know about Celtic religion? The aim of this paper is to explore the gravity of sociocultural change between the late Iron Age and the Roman period, and its consequences for local religions, attempting to identify possible "relics" of late Iron Age cults in the Principate. We recognise the development of new "hybrid" religions that have been taking up substance from Greek, Roman and "native" cultures over many centuries, a process that intensified after the Roman conquest.
Manipulating the Past. Re-thinking Graeco-Roman accounts on ‘Celtic’ religion
IN: Fraude, Mentira y Engaños en el Mundo Antiguo, ed. by Franciso Marco Simón, Francisco Pina Polo and José Remesal Rodríguez. Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona (Colleccio Instrumenta, vol. 45), pp. 35-54, 2014
Did druids really exist? Did Celts perform human sacrifice? The aim of this paper is to scrutinise our sources on Celtic religion. We can see that our sources are not only unreliable, but they were also consciously used to manipulate the readers’ image of Celts. Rome’s long-standing fear of the Galli had made way for a fear of the druids by the 1st century A.D. The Romans were increasingly interested in the Celts/Galli in the 1st century B.C., catalysed by Caesar campaigning in Gaul and Britain. But despite first-hand knowledge, authors used obsolete topoi. The reasons for this changed through time and the ‘Celts’ became increasingly instrumentalised. This leads us to another important question: can we use these Graeco-Roman sources for the study of Celtic religion? Are the information on deities, rituals, priesthoods, re-incarnation and Pythagoreanism reliable? These are some of the questions addressed in this paper.
The dichotomy in Romano-Celtic syncretism: Some preliminary thoughts on vernacular religion
Later published as Goldberg, D.Martin., 2009, ‘The dichotomy in Romano-Celtic syncretism: Some preliminary thoughts on vernacular religion’, in Mark Driessen, Stijn Heeren, Joep Hendriks, Fleur Kemmers and Ronald Visser (eds.) TRAC 2008 Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference which took place at The University of Amsterdam 4–6 March 2008, (Oxford:Oxbow) pp.187-202
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The references to the Celts in the classics are usually taken as evidence about the Celts. As such they have been minutely inspected by Celtic scholars. These references, however, are necessarily embedded in a cultural meeting — a cultural meeting, moreover, where the organising principles of observation and understanding are not on the Celtic side. The classical sources tell us primarily about the classificatory systems of the classical authors. It is more difficult to say what they tell us about the Celts.
Tyrannies of Distance? Medieval Sources as Evidence for Celtic and Romano-Celtic Religion
in R. Haussler and A. King (eds), Celtic Religions in the Roman Period: Personal, Local and Global. Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2017
This multi-authored book brings together new work, from a wide range of disciplinary vantages, on pre-Christian religion in the Celtic-speaking provinces of the Roman Empire. The chapters are the work of international experts in the fields of classics, ancient history, archaeology, and Celtic studies. It is fully illustrated with b&w and colour maps, site plans, photographs and drawings of ancient inscriptions and images of Romano-Celtic gods. The collection is based on the thirteenth workshop of the F.E.R.C.AN. project ( fontes epigraphici religionum Celticarum antiquarum), which was held in 2014 in Lampeter, Wales. celtic studies publications CSP-Cymru Cyf celtic studies publications CSP-Cymru Cyf 9 7 8 1 8 9 1 2 7 1 2 5 0 1 3 9 9 5 ISBN 978-1-891271-25-0 cover Celtic Religions Cocidius knockout terfynol.indd 1
AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE NATURE, BELIEFS, AND PRACTICES OF THE CELTIC CHURCH
ABSTRACT The purpose of this dissertation is to prove that the Ancient Church in Ireland, Scotland and Western Britain (generically the ‘Celtic Church’, despite its arguably disparate languages and local practices), before the Great Schism of 1054, held an equal place in the one family of Apostolic Catholic Orthodox Churches existing from the early centuries of Christianity. It aims to clarify some aspects of the nature, beliefs, and practices of the Celtic Church. In so doing, it hopes to contribute to dispelling the myths surrounding this period of Church history prevalent in the Celtic Spirituality movements of today. To verify this thesis the liturgical material, theology and practice, and the art of the Celtic Church are specifically compared to those of the Coptic and Orthodox Churches. To put this comparison into context, it is necessary to set the scene historically and include archaeological corroboration. The Synod of Whitby, the Filioque, and the Pelagian controversy are not referred to in detail. Discussion of the attempted recreation of the "Orthodox Celtic Church‟ and similar organisations is excluded from this work.
Religion and Burial: Roman Domination, Celtic Acceptance, or Mutual Understanding
The effects of Romanization were believed to be devastating to the cultures conquered by Rome but Britain was an exception. The Romanization of Britain began through trade with the continent long before the invasion by Claudius. But the natives of Britain did not accept the Roman culture as completely as other conquests of Rome. R. G. Collingwood did not believe that the Romans dominated the Celtic culture. What he observed in the inscriptions and archaeology of Britain was a conflation of both cultures. Roman Britain was a unique combination of Celtic and Roman culture that was achieved through mutual acceptance and practice of both cultures’ values. The examination of two of those values, religious and mortuary practices can help reveal the extent of Romanization in Britain and finally confirm Collingwood’s theory of Romanization.